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Thursday, May 10, 2007

Rudy! Snubs Poor FarmersOnly Millionaires For Rally Hosts.

This needs to get out far and yon into the blogosphere kids.

I'm with Greg Sargent, if this was a Democrat, it would be at the top of Drudge with a flashing siren.

OLIN–Last weekend Deb and Jerry VonSprecken of Olin received a call from former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s campaign office asking them if they would be interested in holding a campaign rally on May 4, after she had donated to his campaign. “We thought it would be an honor and agreed,” said Jerry.

After agreeing to host Rudy's rally, Deb and Jerry Von Sprecken then set about doing a bunch of work to organize the event. They underwent a security check and called a bunch of local friends and acquaintances -- and even the local sheriff and fire department -- and proudly put the pieces in place for their rally.

All good and fine until.....

On Tuesday Deb received a call from Giuliani’s Des Moines office and was asked to call New York. “They wanted to know our assets,” she revealed, and added that she and Jerry have a modest 80 acre farm and raise cattle.

Later she received a call from Tony Delgado at the Des Monies location.

“Tony said, ‘I’m sorry, you aren’t worth a million dollars and he is campaigning on the Death Tax right now.’ then he said they weren’t going to be able to come,” Deb continued.

Long story short, Deb is disabled, they aren't rich, they went to tons of trouble to organize this and the Rudy! campaign just blew them off.... oh, but they did offer a chance at a photo-op.

Finally, Greg called Deb to confirm all the information. This is what she said.

"I told [Rudy's aide] from day one that we were poor folks, just trying to scrape by...When they [asked us to host the event], I was just ecstatic. We were honored. It was an honor and a privilege. We worked so hard...

Why would Rudy Giuliani not come speak to the average Americans that live in eastern Iowa, instead of qualifying you as a millionaire before he will show up to your place?"